Product Development Manager, SKIMS Beauty Los Angeles HQ - Design and Product

SKIMS is a solutions-oriented brand creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear, shapewear, and essentials. We are setting new standards by delivering technically innovative, comfort-driven products with elevated design for everybody.

At the intersection of culture, innovation, and commerce, SKIMS is a global brand redefining modern apparel. Our teams are built on creativity, collaboration, and operational excellence, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive, high-performance environment where ambitious, curious, and values-driven individuals can do the best work of their careers.

As SKIMS expands into Beauty, we are bringing the same solutions-driven philosophy, elevated aesthetic, and commitment to innovation to a new category. SKIMS Beauty is building a modern beauty business designed to challenge convention and create highly considered, performance-driven products with global relevance.

SKIMS Beauty is seeking a highly organized, commercially minded Product Development Manager to manage the development and execution of beauty products from initial concept through commercialization and launch.

This role will be a critical connector across Creative, Brand, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Finance, and external manufacturing partners, ensuring products are developed to the highest standards while meeting cost, quality, timing, and brand objectives.

The ideal candidate has strong beauty product development experience, understands the complexities of formulation and packaging development, and thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. They are equally comfortable managing the details of a development timeline and partnering strategically with cross-functional teams to bring an ambitious product vision to life.

• Manage end-to-end product development across assigned SKIMS Beauty categories, from initial concept and brief through formulation, testing, packaging, production, and launch.
• Translate creative and brand concepts into actionable product development briefs, specifications, timelines, and deliverables.
• Partner with laboratories, contract manufacturers, packaging suppliers, and other external vendors to develop innovative, high-performing products.
• Manage formula submissions, evaluations, feedback, revisions, approvals, and final standards.
• Ensure products deliver against agreed performance, sensorial, aesthetic, quality, cost, and consumer expectations.
• Maintain detailed product specifications, development records, approvals, and product documentation throughout the development lifecycle.

• Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to identify product opportunities and support the development of the SKIMS Beauty innovation pipeline.
• Stay closely connected to emerging beauty trends, ingredients, formulations, technologies, packaging innovation, and consumer behavior.
• Conduct competitive product analysis and identify opportunities for differentiation within the beauty landscape.
• Build strong relationships with laboratories and manufacturing partners to identify new technologies, ingredients, capabilities, and innovation opportunities.
• Balance trend awareness with SKIMS' distinct product philosophy to develop products with long-term relevance rather than simply reacting to the market.

• Partner closely with Creative and Packaging teams to develop primary and secondary packaging that delivers against brand vision, functionality, sustainability, cost, and manufacturing requirements.
• Manage packaging sampling, compatibility, functionality, testing, approvals, and production readiness.
• Work with suppliers to identify solutions to technical or…